of a woman in custody. mahsa amini, who was 22, was arrested by the morality police, who d accused her of breaking strict rules on the wearing of the hijab. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. like a gambler desperate to reverse a losing streak, vladimir putin is raising the stakes as he loses ground in ukraine. he has announced a partial mobilisation for this war which he claims is not a war and is bigging up his threats to go nuclear if necessary. so, what does this mean for ukraine and the support it relies on in the west? well, my guest is ivanna klympush tsintsadze, chair of the ukrainian parliament s eu integration committee. can putin s threats undermine support for kyiv? ivanna klympush tsintsadze mp, welcome to hardtalk. ivanna klympush tsintsadze in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i just wonder that if you now have any mixed feelings about the speed and the scale of ukraine s battlefield successes in rece
of our country, he also wants to get to the borders of 1997. so, pre expansion of nato, pre expansion of the eu, and that means he is threatening many more nations thanjust ukrainian nation. and that means that today, the security, the prosperity, the future of the european continent and, basically, the western civilisation is being decided here on our territory with the resource and with the courage and the capacity of the ukrainian society and ukrainian armed forces with which we are pushing back on the aggressor. yeah, and as we speak, interestingly, joe biden is talking in the united states and he is again expressing complete solidarity with ukraine, emphasising that putin will achieve nothing by threats and force. so, that message has not changed but it s interesting to me that while you and many